The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-04
BrevitiesY

Now is the time 10 tim Your srapeViheS
and fruit trees do ret walt until the sap
gets into the wood.
Two great enemies Ho DDS Sarsaparil.a
and impure blood. The latter is utterly de-
feated by the pc ular medicine.
Judge Brooke was here on Monday ana
drew the Jurors for the April Term OF onr
Court: the lists will be found in another col
umn.
The Rev. DR.. VIM. S Southgate, Annapo-
lis, is now prominently mentioned in connec-
ton with the vacant 3 ishopric OF the Easton
Diocese.
Rv card in another column it will be seen
that Messrs. c. c. Nagruder and Joseph D
Wilson have entered into legal coparther
ship. We wish the new finn every success III
their profession.
Collector Groome has appointed Thomas
J. Talbot, native of this county, as Cher
Entry Clerk at the Custom House, Baltimore,
at salary of $500 per year, vice David H.
Ralston, resigned.
BAD roads and hard times form the burden
of our country friends talk at present. II the
roads are as bad as the times are hard, neces-
sity, the mother of invent on. will devise some
means Of ;crial navigation.
We see thai the boys al Frederick have al
ready nalleurated the kte-fyn season. On
Monday the Marlboro youth might have
opened the campaign with fine effect ana,
nrobabiy. taken an a.niai voyage themselves.
"Melrose Institute says Tie Laurel Re
rie,c, (Which cannot lie excelled in Mary land
for young ladies' seminary, is receiving
more pupils every week. And don't you for
get there is some very handsome yourg la
dies there
The Lenten ssr vices at tie churches are be-
ing well attended. Trinity Church will be
open this evening at : O'Clock with Evening
PRAYER ano Sermon. Six Sundays fall in
Lent. but are not included in the forty pen
tentiai DAYS, as Sunday is Fever day of
fasting.
j. Henry Harrison, through his Attorney,
Char les Ii. Stanley, ESQ., Las entered suit
against the Laurel Manufacturing Company
for damages alleged to have been sustained
while in their employment Messls. Roberts
and Stanley have been employed by the de-
PENDANT.
The mail route fiom Millersville, Anne
Arundel county, to Sunderland, Calvert
county. has been changed so as 10 embrace
and end at Dunkirk, emitting Sunderland.-
Hereafter mail from the North 70 + Jewell and
Friendship, Anne Arundel county, will be
dispatched via Upper Marlboro
The amateur theatricals give Il at the Town
Hall on Monday evening, February 2lst, were
such a decided success and met with such
popular favor. that it is to be hoped the par
Elephants will again entertain the public at an
early date, We feel safe in ssuring them
crowded and appreci alive house.
The month of February, eighteen hundred
aud eighty-seven, with its brief twenty eight
days, has-with its rains, snow-storms, high
winds, gloomy skies and tleacherous roads
established place for itself in the current
year that will long be remembered. And all
this, the ground log to the contrary, notwith-
standing.
We sadly need sufficient hitching places to
our country friends. We are
always glad to see them in town and glad TO
have thsm spend their mon ey with us, but it
is asking too much to compel them to drive
around for half all hour or So hunting for
hitching place, OR TO stand in the street and
hold their horses.
Virgins, the irrepre ssib.e and ought-to-be-
weather. prophet, comes to the front
again with direful earthqu axe disturbances to
occur between September 10 and October 2.
AS the predicted catastrophe is some distance
of, and as we have heard from Virgins on
various occasions, we shall continus, as usu
al, to publish this paper every week.
Two Young mel, JOHN Bassett and John
OF Washington, We're lun over and killed by
lie cars at HyaltsyiIle on Sunday night
They had ltaclc iyattsyiile on a north
bound trai Il, and wee just stepping of When
ing by, the engine striking them, and killing
them instantly.
The good people of Fores.vile are interest
ed in the enterprise Of building Sunday
School and Lecture Room. Rev. Mr.. Bray
shaw, rector of the church and editor Of the
RectOr's ASSISTANT publishes strong appeal
for aid in the good work. Tie following
building committee has been appointed =
Messrs. John F. McGregor, chairman w. E.
X. Suit, A. O. Brady, the Rector member
err oficio.
The blizzard which visited tie northern
states last week reached this vicinity Oh Sum
day last. 1t came in full vigor, and, evidently,
with all the Manitoba accomplishments. To
Judge by its breezy and lengthy tay among lis
should say it had picked up a few frisky ele-
ments on the way. L lie boisterous manner
ter was tr uly Of character TO make it i.ota-
BILE and W ish it '.weIl a IT,
The Aiu mil ASS Ccist.on Of ST. Johns Col
lege is raising fund TO assist the present stu
dents in fitting up Inc tiy mnssium " ih much
needed appliances and iii rebuilding The
boat-house, which WAS destroyed by fire last
year The Board OF Visitors are considering
the practcability Of heating Tie College
buildings throughout 10y steam. Other inl-
provements ahd reLOVat.oas are also talked Of
as in prosrrs, in tli. Boarding Halls ard
DolmitorieS.